Refugee Novel Test

The novel is narrated from the point of view of

• first-person narrator

• second-person narrator

• third-person narrator

Which item is a powerful symbol for conflict on the M.S. St Louis?

• a funeral

• a siren

• a Nazi flag

• a stack of furniture

Policemen shoot at Isabel's boat when it's leaving Cuba because

• It's against the law to leave Cuba

• A riot suddenly occurs and Papi is warned by a policeman

• The boat was not registered

• Luis and Amara weren't allowed to leave Cuba

Mahmoud's father has a change in personality after

• a taxi driver points a gun at him

• the dinghy explodes when it hits the rocks

• they lose Hana

• he is physically beaten by the Hungarian guards

Reorder the following in the order they happened:

• Josef opens his family's room and Sheindick destroys it to get revenge

• Josef celebrates his 13th birthday

• Josef's dad gets sent to a concentration camp

• Josef's dad jumps off the ship

• Josef starts school in France

Reorder the following:

• Mahmoud learns of Ruthie's family story.

• Mahmoud gets bullied for sticking up for his friend

• Mahmoud's family escapes the apartment after a bombing

• Mahmoud and his family stay in an abandoned mall waiting for boat smugglers

• Mahmoud and his family arrive in Greece without his sister

Reorder the following

• Isabel plays the "Star Spangled Banner" for auditions

• Ivan dies

• Isabel's brother is born

• Lito meets Josef

• Isabel's father riots in Havana and gets in trouble with the police

Match the following

(Who said it?)

• Sheindick

• "No, no we can't leave him here! He'll be all alone."

• Ruthie

• "You said if I was quiet, if I stood very still, they wouldn't come for me."

• Josef's dad

• "Well, she couldn't choose. How could she? So my brother chose for her."

• Mahmoud's dad

• "I wouldn't live in this awful country even if it was made of gold!"

• Isabel

• "Jewish rats."

Match the following

(Who said it?)

• Mama

• "Whoever is dropping bombs on us."

• Lito

• [They change] "But do they ever get better?"

• Mahmoud

• "All my life, I kept waiting for things to get better. For the bright promise of manana...the world didn't change because I didn't change it."

• Waleed

• "You can live life like a ghost, waiting for death to come, or you can dance."

• Ivan

• "They only see us when we do something they don't like."

Match the following

(Who is it?)

• Senor Castillo

• Starts a mutiny

• Waleed

• Owner of Isabel's boat

• Mahmoud's dad

• Son who shows little emotion, like a robot

• Pozner

• Son who loves The Industriales baseball team

• Ivan

• Has a sense of humor